In GeoTiddlyWiki you can associate tiddlers with geo features (part of geojson) - the specification allows for non-geographical geometry so in short yes you could create non-country shapes and associate them with tiddlers. This also reminds me a bit of treemapping (http:// en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treemapping)
You may be interested in a project I have been working on (although haven't published anything yet - nothing interesting to show) which is halfway between this and the TiddlerGraphPlugin you mention. I envision a zoomable, pannable graph/map plugin which would allow you to define algorithms to position graph/map nodes which might enable what you are talking about, however if I'm honest I'm still unclear about the big picture that you discuss. I don't "get" where your coming from apart from getting away from hierarchies and arranging data due to proximity - however would the user do this themselves or would this be rearranged on their behalf. Very interested to hear more...! On Jan 15, 10:53 pm, alex <[email protected]> wrote: > I really like the zoomable map and wiki concept. I wonder if it can be > applied to other maps, ones drawn by the user. Would it be possible to > draw your own map into a tiddler, save the shape in a similar way that > the countries shapes have been saved, then open an empty tiddler from > shapes or lines you create? > > This could be a way out of the boxes and lines model of data > representation associated mind mapping. The use of arrows or lines to > represent tagged or tagging relationships between tiddlers (see > today's other exciting TW graphical release[1]) could be represented > visually using graphical representation borrowed from mapping and > drawing. (see inspiration below [2]) > > Heirachical links could be represented as a map instead of lines or > arrows. For example, just as the glorious towns of Crewe, Congleton > and Stockport could be red dots on the map of a green Cheshire, Cars, > Silk and Hats could be red dots on a map of "shrinking UK industries." > By drawing another red spot and clicking a could trigger a newHere > like function and you could add a new tiddler , with the Title "shirt- > making" for example. > > Visual closeness on the map would add a new way of indicating > relationships between your tiddlers. For example, in your "shrinking > UK industries" region, you might want to put "silk" and "shirt-making" > closer together. You may have wisely decided that while a relationship > exists and you have put it on your map, is not worthy of investing a > tag or text to it. It might be later on – when the map has been > further populated, with "pajama-making" , "ribbon-making" and > "football shirts" you declare that "Congelton is going to be an > amazing center for renaisance in UK industry. Water power is to be > used to create luxury silk products and Cristiano Ronaldo, cut the > ribbon of a new factory modeling the first of the new pure silk reto > styled eco-friendly 2010 Manchester United shirts embroidered by with > the name of the new sponsor - Rolls Royce of Crewe. > > Alex > > Other tiddly graphic link > [1]http://ideia.tiddlyspot.com/ > > What made me think of the above was the google earth project where the > zoomable function of google earth is used to view an artwork depicting > a narrative and a discussion with dissmissing peddlers of "bubble and > stick software" as snake oil salesmen. > > [2]http://google-latlong.blogspot.com/2009/01/explore-masterpieces-of-pr... > (http://tinyurl.com/8umybw) --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWikiDev" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/TiddlyWikiDev?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
